November 1, 2021

Born on this date
Happy Birthday, Maurice Pratt!

1,175 years ago
846

Born on this date
Louis II. King of West Francia, 877-879. Louis the Stammerer acceded to the throne upon the death of his father Charles the Bald. He suffered from poor health, and died on April 10, 879 at the age of 32, while leading a military campaign against invading Viking forces. King Louis was succeeded by his sons Carloman II and Louis III as co-sovereigns.

475 years ago
1546

Died on this date
Giulio Romano, 47 (?). Italian artist and architect. Mr. Romano, whose real name was Giulio Pippi, painted portraits and religious scenes. He was a pupil of Raphael, and helped to define the style known as Mannerism. Mr. Romano was more influential as an architect than as a painter, and designed several notable buildings in Rome.

410 years ago
1611

Theatre
The Tempest by William Shakespeare was performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

190 years ago
1831

Born on this date
Harry Atkinson. Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1876-1877, 1883-1884, 1887-1891. Sir Harry, a native of England, followed his elder brother William to New Zealand at the age of 22 and became a farmer. He represented Grey and Bell in the Taranaki provincial council (1857-1865, 1873-1874), and was a member of the Executive Council (1868, 1874). Sir Harry represented Grey and Bell (1861-1866); Town of New Plymouth (1867-1869); and Egmont (1872-1891) in the N.Z. Parliament, serving as Defence Minister (1864-1866) and as Colonial Treasurer for 10 years, carefully managing government finances. During his last term as Prime Minister, he held seven other posts. Sir Harry was known for his support of the wars against the Māori and his opposition to Māori land rights. He suffered from declining health during his last months as Prime Minister, and was appointed to the Legislative Council in January 1891, accepting an appointment as Speaker of the Legislative Council. On June 28, 1892, Sir Harry presided over the Council's first sitting of the 1892 session, returned to the Speaker's Room, and died at the age of 60.

160 years ago
1861

War
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appointed General George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.

150 years ago
1871

Born on this date
Stephen Crane. U.S. writer. Mr. Crane was a poet, journalist, and author of novels and short stories who was a notable early figure in American Naturalism and Impressionism; Ernest Hemingway was among the writers influenced by his work. Mr. Crane reported on the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, but was best known for the novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895). He was living in England when he suffered a series of pulmonary hemorrhages, and died at the age of 28 on June 5, 1900, at the spa of Badenweiler, Germany while attempting to recover.

110 years ago
1911

War
The world's first combat aerial bombing mission took place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War, as Italian Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped several small bombs.

100 years ago
1921

Born on this date
John W. Peterson. U.S. songwriter. Mr. Peterson wrote over 1,000 gospel songs and 35 cantatas, and had a huge influence on Chrisitian music from the 1950s through the '70s. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1986, and died on September 20, 2006 at the age of 84.

90 years ago
1931

Football
NFL
Portsmouth (8-1) 0 @ New York (4-3) 14
Chicago Cardinals (1-3) 14 @ Brooklyn (2-7) 7
Providence (1-3-2) 7 @ Staten Island (1-3-1) 7
Green Bay (8-0) 6 @ Chicago Bears (3-3) 2

80 years ago
1941

Hit parade
#1 single in the U.S.A. (Billboard): Piano Concerto in B Flat--Freddy Martin and his Orchestra (5th week at #1)

Americana
Ansel Adams took a photograph of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

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War
A statement from German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's headquarters charged that the U.S. ships Greer and Kearny had attacked German submarines, and "therefore the United States attacked Germany." A secret Japanese cabinet meeting decided for war against the United States if negotiations did not produce an agreement with the U.S.A. by December 1 for Japan to receive oil from the East Indies and to be left free to settle the China incident without intervention.

Diplomacy
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King met with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Mr. Roosevelt's private home in Hyde Park, New York.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Joseph E. Davies stated that the "treason trials and purges from 1935 to 1938...indicates the amazing farsightedness of [Soviet leader Josef] Stalin...There can be no doubt that these defendants were...in the employ of the German and Japanese high commands."

U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley (Democrat--Kentucky), speaking to Zionists in New York, urged that a Jewish homeland be created in Palestine.

Defense
Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia said that his country's policy of neutrality would have to be revised because peace was now endangered.

Transportation
The Rainbow Bridge between Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario opened.

Economics and finance
A Japanese news agency said that unless the U.S. halted its economic blockade, Japan must seek supply sources for vital goods and materials as a measure of self-defense.

Football
CRU
ERFU
Ottawa (5-1) 11 @ Montreal (0-6) 2
Toronto Balmy Beach (2-4) 5 @ Toronto Argonauts (5-1) 8

Wilf Tremblay scored the Rough Riders' touchdown in their win over the Bulldogs at Percival Molson Stadium. George Fraser converted and added a field goal and single, and Arnie McWatters punted for a single for Ottawa. Gord Noseworthy punted for 2 singles for Montreal, who were playing their last game under the name Bulldogs.

Pat Reid scored the Argonauts' touchdown in their win over Balmy Beach at Varsity Stadium. Earl Selkirk converted, and Mike Meikle and Annis Stukus added singles. Singles accounted for all the Balmy Beach points: 3 by Sammy Sward, and 1 each by Bobby Porter and Jack Alexander.

These games marked the end of regular season play for the Eastern Rugby Football Union's only season. Balmy Beach returned to the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1942, while the Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Bulldogs suspended operations through the 1944 season because of World War II. The Ottawa Rough Riders played in the Ottawa City Senior Football League in 1942 before suspending operations through 1944. For the present, the Rough Riders and Argonauts were preparing for a 2-game, total points series to determine the ERFU champion, with the first game scheduled for Lansdowne Park in Ottawa on November 8.

75 years ago
1946

At the movies
A Matter of Life and Death, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and starring David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, and Kim Hunter, received its premiere screening at the Empire Theatre in London in the first ever Royal Film Performance.



Music
Paul Robeson performed a concert at Glebe Collegiate Auditorium in Ottawa.

War
Chinese negotiators in Nanking rejected truce proposals which would give them military control of only three northern Manchurian provinces.

World events
Two British ships left Haifa for Cyprus with 1,279 illegal Jewish immigrants captured the previous day on board their vessel.

Diplomacy
Reporting on his treaty negotiations with the United Kingdom, Egyptian Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha told his cabinet that U.K. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had agreed to recognize Egyptian sovereignty over Sudan and withdraw British forces from Egypt in three years.

Science
The University of California at Berkeley announced the completion of its 184-inch cyclotron, the most powerful atom-smasher in the world.

Religion
Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in Poland.

Boxing
Sugar Ray Robinson (72-1-1) knocked out Cecil Hudson (51-20-4) with 2 seconds remaining in the 6th round of a scheduled 10-round welterweight bout at Olympia Stadium in Detroit.

Basketball
BAA
New York (1-0) 68 @ Toronto (0-1) 66

The Knickerbockers edged the Huskies before 7,090 fans at Maple Leaf Gardens in the first regular season game ever played in the the Basketball Association of America, founded by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the northeastern and midwestern United States and Canada who needed an alternative sport for their venues. The BAA merged with the National Basketball League in 1949 to become the National Basketball Association.



Ossie Schectman of the Knickerbockers scored the first points in BAA history with a field goal:



70 years ago
1951

War
U.S. and Communist negotiators reached a tentative agreement on the location of the truce line for the eastern half of the Korean front, running east from Kumhwa. Defense
5,000 U.S. troops participating in Desert Rock I, the world's first atomic maneuvers, witnessed from a distance of about six miles in Nevada the explosion of Buster-Jangle Dog, the fourth in a series of seven atomic devices.

Protest
Election day riots in Casablanca resulted in 6 deaths and 60 injuries. French authorities blamed the violence on the Moroccan Independence Party.

Energy
The first coal pipeline unit, owned by the Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal Company, began functioning near Cadiz, Ohio.

Economics and finance
West Germany threatened to cancel its new trade pact with East Germany unless Soviet authorities kept their promise to stop interfering with traffic between West Germany and West Berlin.

Increases in federal excise and individual income taxes went into effect in the United States.

60 years ago
1961

At the movies
The Comancheros, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, and Lee Marvin, opened in theatres.



Fear No More, directed by Bernard Wiesen, and starring Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, and Anna Lee Carroll, opened in theatres.



Russiana
The body of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was removed from the mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow where it had lain next to that of Vladimir Lenin since Mr. Stalin's death in 1953, and was reburied near the Kremlin wall.

Baseball
Nippon Series
Yomiuri Giants 3 @ Nankai Hawks 2 (Yomiuri won best-of-seven series 4-2)

50 years ago
1971

Hit parade
#1 single in Australia (Kent Music Report): Banks of the Ohio--Olivia Newton-John (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Japan (Oricon Singles Chart): Ame no Ballad--Masayuki Yuhara (3rd week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Mammy Blue--Pop-Tops (2nd week at #1)

Defense
A five-nation Asian defense pact, signed by Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, superseded the British-Malaysian-Singaporean defense treaty under which the U.K. had formerly assumed sole responsibility for security of the area.

Journalism
Two days after The Toronto Telegram published its last edition, The Toronto Sun published its first edition. Many of the Sun's employees were alumni of the Telegram.

Football
NFL
Detroit (4-2-1) 14 @ Green Bay (2-4-1) 14

40 years ago
1981

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Say I Love You--Renée Geyer

#1 single in Switzerland: Japanese Boy--Aneka (2nd week at #1)

Austria's Top 10 (Ö3)
1 Du entschuldige - i kenn' di--Peter Cornelius (5th week at #1)
2 Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären--Fred Sonnenschein und seine Freunde
3 Dance Little Bird--Electronica's
4 Dance Little Bird--Bobby Setter Showband
5 Hold on Tight--Electric Light Orchestra
6 Japanese Boy--Aneka
7 Strada del sole--Rainhard Fendrich
8 For Your Eyes Only--Sheena Easton
9 Green Door--Shakin' Stevens
10 Only Crying--Keith Marshall

Singles entering the chart were Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären; Japanese Boy; Hooked on Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (#11); Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones (#14); Highdelbeeren by Wilfried (#19); and Crazy Music by Ottawan (#20).

Caribbeana
Antigua and Barbuda gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

Football
CFL
Ottawa (5-11) 15 @ Montreal (3-13) 39

Tight end Peter Dalla Riva caught 2 touchdown passes for the Alouettes as they overcame a 14-7 deficit and defeated the Rough Riders to clinch the third and final playoff spot in the East Division, becoming the worst team ever to make the playoffs in the CFL.



Calgary (6-10) @ Winnipeg (11-5) 44

Winnipeg receiver Eugene Goodlow tied a CFL single-game record with 15 receptions as the Blue Bombers routed the Stampeders at Winnipeg Stadium. Mr. Goodlow finished the season with 100 receptions, breaking the record of 98 set by George McGowan of the Edmonton Eskimos in 1975. Mr. McGowan had also set the regular season record of 15 pass receptions in a game in 1973. The Stampeders' loss marked the last game for Jerry Williams as a CFL head coach. He had been head coach of the Stampeders from 1965-1968, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1972-1975, before returning to the Stampeders in 1981 as an assistant to Ardell Wiegandt and resuming the head coaching duties with 4 games remaining after the dismissal of Mr. Wiegandt.

30 years ago
1991

Politics and government
Roy Romanow, who had led his New Democratic Party to victory in the recent provincial election, was sworn in as Premier of Saskatchewan, replacing Grant Devine and the Progressive Conservatives.

Law
Clarence Thomas took his place on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Transportation
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced a $6-million, two-year study for a high speed train corridor between Windsor, Ontario and Québec City. The estimated cost of $7 billion would be shared by the governments of Canada and Québec.

25 years ago
1996

Hit parade
#1 single in Sweden (Topplistan): Free Like a Flying Demon--E-type (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Words--Boyzone (4th week at #1)

Died on this date
J.R. Jayewardene, 90. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1977-1978; President of Sri Lanka, 1978-1989. Junius Richard Jayewardene, a member of the United National Party, began his political career in the late 1930s when Sri Lanka was still a British colony known as Ceylon. He held various positions before serving as Prime Minister, and then as President under a new constitution. Mr. Jayewardene's presidency was plagued by civil war between government and Tamil forces.

Economics and finance
The government of Canada approved Canada's first diamond mine, by Australian-based BHP Diamonds; the $750-million project was about 180 miles northwest of Yellowknife.

Football
CFL
Montreal (12-6) 42 @ Winnipeg (9-9) 24

The Alouettes took a 32-8 halftime lead and coasted to victory over the Blue Bombers before 25,968 fans at Winnipeg Stadium. Winnipeg quarterback Kevin McDougal suffered a season-ending injury, and Winnipeg offensive tackle Chris Walby was taken off the field with a knee injury that ended his 16-year Hall of Fame career.

20 years ago
2001

Crime
Arsonists destroyed St. John's Church in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The second-oldest Anglican church in Canada was built in 1754; restoration was completed in 2005.

Agriculture
United Grain Growers (UGG) and Agricore merged to become Agricore United, based in Winnipeg.

Baseball
World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks 2 @ New York Yankees 3 (12 innings) (New York led best-of-seven series 3-2)

Steve Finlay and Rod Barajas hit solo home runs off New York starting pitcher Mike Mussina to give the Diamondbacks a 2-0 lead in the top of the 5th inning before 56,018 fans at Yankee Stadium. Miguel Batista started for Arizona and pitched 7.2 innings, but Byun-Hyun Kim, who had failed to protect the lead the previous night, gave up a 2-run home run to Scott Brosius with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the game. Alfonso Soriano singled home Chuck Knoblauch with the winning run off losing pitcher Albie Lopez (0-1) with 1 out in the bottom of the 12th. Sterling Hitchcock (1-0), the last of four New York pitchers, pitched a perfect 12th inning and was credited with the win.



10 years ago
2011

Economics and finance
Mario Draghi succeeded Jean-Claude Trichet and became the third president of the European Central Bank.